BILL NUMBER: SJR 10	CHAPTERED  07/08/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   57
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 8, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 1, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JUNE 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 17, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dunn

                        MARCH 9, 1999

   Senate Joint Resolution No. 10--Relative to the Older Americans
Act.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 10, Dunn.  Reauthorization of the federal Older Americans Act
of 1965.
   Existing federal law establishes the federal Older Americans Act
of 1965, which provides money for major nutrition, transportation,
and other senior services.
   This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the
United States to enact legislation reauthorizing the federal Older
Americans Act of 1965.




   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. Sec.
3001 et seq.) expired in October 1995, although funding for its
programs has been authorized since that date on an annual basis; and
   WHEREAS, The congressional appropriations staff continue to stress
the tight spending caps on discretionary programs imposed by the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33); and
   WHEREAS, A substantial number of seniors living in the State of
California will be at risk if there are significant reductions in
allocated funds for Older Americans Act programs; and
   WHEREAS, Further delay in the reauthorization of the federal Older
Americans Act of 1965 will erode the capacity of the act's various
structures to deliver services to meet the needs of older Americans;
and
   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 should
immediately be reauthorized to preserve the aging network's role in
home- and community-based services, maintain the advocacy and
consumer directed focus of the act, and give area agencies on aging
increased flexibility in planning and delivering services to
vulnerable older Americans; and
   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 should be funded
in the same manner in which the act has been funded for the past 33
years; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
respectfully memorializes the President and the Congress of the
United States to enact legislation that would reauthorize the federal
Older Americans Act of 1965 without further delay; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator
and Representative from California in the Congress of the United
States.
